Curtis Baynes: County may need to change its sewer priorities

7:15 PM,
May 3, 2013

Curtis Baynes

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Sewerage has been the mainstay of urban life since the first villages formed in Indus valley 5,000 years ago. The 2030 Master Sewer Plan has targeted nine areas in the county for sewerage. In those areas, nearly 38,000 people who are using about 12,500 septic tanks for disposing of more than 3.1 million gallons of wastewater each day. The cost of sewerage: $295 million. Over the next 20 years, we can fund only about $29 million, or about 10 percent of that need.

In 2005, the County Commission designated three priority target areas ...